 Dare to be great, without a guilty crown ; View it, and lay the bright temptation down : 'Tis base to seize on all, because you may; That's empire, that, which I can give away : There's joy when to wild will you laws prescribe, When you bid Fortune carry...  The Freethinker; Or, Essays, on Ignorance, Superstition, Bigotry, Enthusiam ... - Page 161733Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...Temptation down. 'Tis bafe to fieze on all becaufe you may ; , That's Empire, that which I can give away : There's Joy, when. to wild Will you Laws prefcribe,...Fortune carry back her Bribe. A Joy which none but greateft Minds can tafte, A Fame which will to endlefs Ages laft. Dryd. Auren. And few Ufurpers to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1717 - 464 pages
...you may; That's Empire, that which I can give away: There's Joy when to wild Will you Laws prefcribc, When you bid Fortune carry back her Bribe : A Joy, which none but greateft Minds can tafte; A Fame, which will to endlefs Ages laft. Mar. Renown, and Fame, in vain,... | |
 | 1723 - 410 pages
...engaging Amufements of Wedlock. Monday, ^pr. 6. 1719. There's Joy, when to wild Will you Laws prefer ibe ; When you bid Fortune carry back her Bribe : A Joy, which None, but greatefl Mindi can tafte ; A Fame, which will to endlefs Ages lafl. DRYDEN. ! HE Long Nights are pafled ; and,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 pages
...himfelf into a bnbf. H'allfr. —If a man be covetous, profits or bribes may put him to the left.— There's joy when to wild will you laws prefcribe, When you bid fortune carry back her brilf. DnJrn. (a.) BRIBE anciently imported RS much zspanij mendicattu, which ftill keeps up the idea... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 436 pages
...may ; That's empire, that, which I can give away: There's joy when to wild will you laws prescribe, When you bid fortune carry back her bribe : A joy, which none but greatest minds can taste; A fame, which will to endless ages last. Mor. Renown, and fame, in vain,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 476 pages
...UNIVERSAL SPECTATOR, vol. ii. p. 246. No. XXIX. There's joy, when to wild will you laws prescribe; When you bid Fortune carry back her bribe : A joy which none but greatest minds can taste ; A fame which will to endless ages last. THERE was a young man of extraordinary... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 430 pages
...may ; That's empire, that, which I can give away : There's joy when to wild will you laws prescribe, When you bid fortune carry back her bribe : A joy, which none but greatest minds cart taste ; A fame, which will to endless ages last. Mor. Renown, and fame, in vain,... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...you may; That's empire, that which I can give away: There's joy when to wild will you laws prescribe, When you bid Fortune carry back her bribe : A joy, which none but greatest minds can taste; A fame, which will to endless ages last. Mor. Renown and fame in vain I courted... | |
 | David Harrison Stevens - English drama - 1923 - 938 pages
...you may; That's empire, that which I can give away. There's joy when to wild will you laws prescribe, , 1 But bid all cruel fathers dread my fate. Exeunt Omnes CURTAIN greatest minds can taste; no A fame which will to endless ages last. MORAT. Renown and fame in vain... | |
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